Diamond Factory deployment fails

[iamonuwa]

Describe the bug A clear and concise description of what the bug is.

When I attempt to deploy a diamond factory contract with hardhat, it throws this error TypeError: executionContract.populateTransaction[options.execute.methodName] is not a function

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. The codesnippet below fails

...
await diamond.deploy("Factory", {
        from: deployer,
        owner: deployer,
        facets: [...facets],
        execute: {
            methodName: 'initialize',
            args: [
                diamondCut,
                diamondCut.address,
                init.address,
            ]
        },
        log: true
    })

3. See error

Expected behavior A clear and concise description of what you expected to happen. Expect the contract to deploy successfully without error.

versions

• hardhat-deploy [e.g. 0.9.14] 0.11.18
• hardhat - 2.11.1
• nodejs - 18.11.0

Additional context Add any other context about the problem here.

[iamonuwa]

Solved this, closing this